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world around us. The department hosts several events each year to invite the rest of the campus and the wider community into our labs to put on some goggles and see chemistry in action. During the annual “Mole Day Eve Spooktacular” in October and “Desserts and Demos” in April, members of the PLU Chem Club get a chance to inspire a new generation of curious scientists, including those from area middles schools, who have fun making long strings of Nylon, mixing glowing slime, and investigating models

wanted to tell, or the actual music? I really developed a story before I wrote the music. The story turned into the video, but the music follows the story. I tried to create a sense of mystique and wonder in the beginning, with the water glasses, and a motif that’s not quite tonal, but is a “twinkling of the stars” idea. Coming into celebrating Earth, I have a happy theme, then, when it gets dark, I experimented with some Blade Runner-type strings.  I was going to ask you about film scores, is that a

investment (because such support tends to favor applied research rather than pure research, and because such support tends to come with strings attached). The strongest position to be in—or at least the position that offers the most flexibility and options for facing an uncertain future—is the position PLU is in: that is, a largely undergraduate liberal arts university offering an array of select graduate and professional programs. When we talk to others about our commitment to the liberal arts, it’s